Reducing Your Data Security Risk Through Tokenization

We will be having our first Austin OWASP meeting of the year tomorrow. The meeting will be held at our usual location (National Instruments - Building C) in our usual room during our usual time (11:30 AM to 1:00 PM). The topic for the meeting is "Reducing Your Data Security Risk Through Tokenization"

Reducing Your Data Security Risk Through Tokenization - Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

The first Austin OWASP meeting of the year is on a really interesting topic that many of you have probably never thought about: Tokenization.

The concept is simple...use tokens to represent your data instead of passing around the data itself. For example, why would you give a customer account representative a full credit card number when all they need to do their job is the last four digits?

Using tokenization, we are able to reduce the data security risk by limiting the number of systems that actually store the data. This extremely simplifies audits for regulations like SOX, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. This presentation will cover the business drivers for data protection, what tokenization is, and how to implement it. If your organization has data to protect, then you're going to want to check out this presentation.

More information about OWASP at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Austin